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title: In a few days a magnificent wedding was celebrated, at which the rej… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few days a magnificent wedding was celebrated, at which the rejoicings lasted four whole weeks, for all the neighbouring kings had met together to thank the man who had freed the world from their common enemy. Who acts: rejoicings, neighbouring kings. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by An
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 170

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In a few days a magnificent wedding was celebrated, at which the rejoicings lasted four whole weeks, for all the neighbouring kings had met together to thank the man who had freed the world from their common enemy.

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**Who acts:** rejoicings, neighbouring kings · **What happens:** celebrate, last, meet, thank, free · **To what, where:** magnificent wedding, man, common enemy

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rejoicings, neighbouring kings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:5:170
# text = In a few days a magnificent wedding was celebrated, at which the rejoicings lasted four whole weeks, for all the neighbouring kings had met together to thank the man who had freed the world from their common enemy.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | a magnificent wedding |  |  | day |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **last** | past | the rejoicings |  |  |  | week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | past · perfect | all neighbouring kings |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | all neighbouring kings *not said here* |  | the man | kings's common enemy |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 5 | **free** | past · perfect · passive |  | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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